I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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There’s a bit of spat at the moment between Spain and France and it seems that a French puppet show is to blame. The fuss started with an episode of Les Guignols de l’info – a sort of French version of Spitting Image – that featured puppets of disgraced cyclist Alberto Contador singing about blood doping...
The year is drawing to a close and that means it's time for JibJab's annual year-end salute to the year that just...
Apologies for a lack of recent updates; as so often is the case, life and work conspired to keep me preoccupied last week, but here's a look at what was happening while I wasn't...
Part of Spitting Image's legacy is that it inspired a series of similar shows around the world. One of the most recent examples is ZA News, a web series that pokes fun at politics in South Africa, which has a strong tradition of political...
Every Bomb You Drop is probably the most famous of the Spitting Image musical parodies and was one of the most poingent segments that the show ever produced....
The Margaret Thatcher puppet was undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of Spitting Image and as a deeply conservative Prime Minister, one of the show's favourite targets. This is one of the show's best Margaret Thatcher...
Nothing was sacred to Spitting Image, least of all religion. My God Is Bigger Than Your God was probably one of the show's most pitch perfect musical satires and it is just as relevant today as the day it was...
There's a federal election today in Canada (our fourth in seven years!). As Canadians head to the polls today, the gang at The Krellant tries to discover what's on the minds of a group of young...
It's almost the end of the year and you know what that means...time for JibJab's annual salute to the year we've all just lived through. Although JibJab is primarily an animation studio, they've never shied away from blending puppetry and animation in the past (see previous post) and this year's video is almost entirely puppet...
Well, another year has come and gone. I've been a little too busy doing puppetry to write about for the past several months, but before 2009 comes to a close I wanted to share JibJab's annual year end video, Never a Year Like...
One pf many puppets featured in A Welcome Manifesto, an open letter to President Obama from American Puppeteers. A Welcome Manifesto is “an open letter to President Obama and all Americans”. It was created by dozens of puppeteers in an effort spearheaded by Hobey Ford (see previous post) on Puptcrit, a mailing list for professional...
We seem to be mired in the worst economic recession of almost everybody’s lifetime and puppeteers (like most artists) are among the hardest hit. With the U.S. government seemingly handing out billions every other day, several people on the Puptcrit email discussion list have been debating the idea of a “Puppetry bailout” for hard hit...
